Perhaps I should have said that I won't badger people for donations or try to seek out ads like many other podcasts do. I've never offered a tip jar or had a donate link and never asked for donations. I pay for the bandwidth and all the equipment needed out of my own pocket...but the next step up in equipment will cost around $200-300 and I just can't do that on my own for a hobby like a podcast. So the thought was, if people want to help out the show, and want to get a cool coin in return, this would be a good common ground. By the time the next show is published the auctions will be done.

Perhaps I should have said that I won't badger people for donations or try to seek out ads like many other podcasts do. I've never offered a tip jar or had a donate link and never asked for donations. I pay for the bandwidth and all the equipment needed out of my own pocket...but the next step up in equipment will cost around $200-300 and I just can't do that on my own for a hobby like a podcast. So the thought was, if people want to help out the show, and want to get a cool coin in return, this would be a good common ground. By the time the next show is published the auctions will be done.

Hope that helps clear it up.

I thought you wanted an iPad? Very cool devices.. my boss has one he was showing me. Though it seems too delicate to take out caching.

I thought you wanted an iPad? Very cool devices.. my boss has one he was showing me. Though it seems too delicate to take out caching.

Ah, well I had the opportunity to buy an iPad from someone who won one at an event and I ended up saving about $200 not getting the 3G model, so I was going to use the money from the sale for the coin; but instead after hearing the audio I took at GCF and how good it sounded (the one taken on during the live recording, not the interviews with vendors), I decided that I really wanted to get another mic like that and for that I'll need a better mixer (my current one only supports one mic).